{"id":13388,"date":"2020-07-25T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=13388"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:32:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:32:40","slug":"featured-joseph-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-joseph-campbell\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured: Joseph Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">Joseph John Campbell was the leading authority on mythology and comparative religion in the 20th century.<\/span> He was an American writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. James Joyce was an important influence on Campbell. His seminal work\u00a0 <em>A Hero With A Thousand Faces<\/em> discusses what Campbell called the <em>monomyth<\/em> (in the cycle of the journey of the hero) a term that he borrowed directly from Joyce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description: <\/strong>First Edition. Hard bound with dust jacket.\u00a0 Some minor wear to dust jacket. Age toning to jacket, mostly to spine edge. Interior clean and binding sound. The 365 page &#8220;1st Key&#8221; edition. Lime green cloth with gilt-lettered spine. The definitive literary analysis and the first important book-length critical work on Finnegans Wake. This was Joseph Campbell&#8217;s second book, the first being <em>Where the Two Came to Their Father<\/em>, A native American story published the year before.\u00a0 <em>A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake<\/em> is considered to be a seminal work on the text.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 30055<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1110254.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13389\" title=\"A Skeleton Key\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1110254-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1110254-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1110254-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1110254.jpg 1026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Skeleton Key To Finnegans Wake<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Campbell, Joseph; Robinson, Morton<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Harcourt, Brace and Co.<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date: <\/strong>1944<br \/>\n<strong>Binding:<\/strong> Hard Bound<br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition:<\/strong> Good<br \/>\n<strong>Dust Jacket Condition:<\/strong> Good<br \/>\n<strong>Edition:<\/strong> First Edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph John Campbell was the leading authority on mythology and comparative religion in the 20th century. He was an American writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. James Joyce was an important influence on Campbell. His seminal work\u00a0 A Hero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13388"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14981,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388\/revisions\/14981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}